Table 1.

Comparison of High-Visit Patients With Remaining Eligible and Persistently High-Visit Patients With Not Persistently High-Visit Patients on Demographic and Visit Characteristics, 1997

Characteristics	High-Visit Patients	Remaining Patients
Number	987	53,087
Demographic characteristics
Female, %	83.2	52.0
Pediatric, %	14.0	30.2
Employee, %	61.9	36.1
Age, mean years (SD)	31.3 (15.6)	30.7 (19.8)
Visit characteristics
ADGs, mean number (SD)	7.3 (3.4)	3.5 (2.8)
Excluding nonusers		4.0 (2.7)
With ≥5 ADGs	77.4	30.8

	Persistently High- Visit Patients	Not Persistently High- Visit Patients
ADG = ambulatory diagnosis group.
Number	173	756
Demographic characteristics
Female, %	71.1	86.1
Pediatric, %	18.5	13.5
Employee, %	63.0	61.8
Age, mean years (SD)	34.2 (18.6)	30.1 (14.3)
Visit characteristics
ADGs, mean number (SD)	9.1 (3.5)	7.0 (3.2)
With ≥ 5 ADGs	92.5%	74.6%
Number of days from first to last visit	293 (55)	266 (58)